[Footnote 90: Instances of it occur in the "Dramatic Idyls" and
"Jocoseria;" and will be noticed later.]

[Footnote 91: Generally confounded with his contemporary and
fellow-citizen, Girolamo del Pacchia.]

[Footnote 92: The (Baron) Kirkup mentioned at vol. xiv. page 5 was a
Florence friend of Mr. Browning's, and a connoisseur in literature and
art. He was ennobled by the King of Italy for his liberal views and for
his services to Italian literature. It was he who discovered the
portrait of Dante in the Bargello at Florence.]

[Footnote 93: Nets spread to catch quails as they fly to or from the
other side of the Mediterranean. They are slung by rings on to poles,
and stand sufficiently high for the quails to fly into them. This, and
every other detail of the poem, are given from personal observation.]




NON-CLASSIFIED POEMS (CONTINUED).

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.


Even so imperfect, not to say arbitrary, a classification as I have been
able to attempt, excludes a number of Mr. Browning's minor poems; for
its necessary condition was the presence of some distinctive mood of
thought or feeling by which the poem could be classed; and in many, even
of the most striking and most characteristic, this condition does not